Phenax's Mill Machine

Commander / EDH Combo Mill Multiplayer UB (Dimir)

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Creature (22)

• 1x Charix, the Raging Isle
• 1x Consuming Aberration
• 1x Diluvian Primordial
• 1x Dimir Doppelganger
• 1x Disciple of Deceit
• 1x Duskmantle Guildmage
• 1x Fleet Swallower
• 1x Geth, Lord of the Vault
• 1x Jace's Archivist
• 1x King Macar, the Gold-Cursed
• 1x Lazav, Dimir Mastermind
• 1x Manic Scribe
• 1x Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
• 1x Mortivore
• 1x Nighthowler
• 1x Ruin Crab
• 1x Sepulchral Primordial
• 1x Silent Arbiter
• 1x Sire of Stagnation
• 1x Tree of Perdition
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Instant (10)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Dramatic Reversal
• 1x Drown in the Loch
• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Hero's Downfall
• 1x Lim-Dul's Vault
• 1x Memory Plunder
• 1x Mystic Confluence

Land (36)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Desert of the Glorified
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Halimar Depths
• 11x Island
• 1x Jwar Isle Refuge
• 1x Nephalia Drownyard
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Submerged Boneyard
• 11x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Underground River

Artifact (10)

• 1x Altar of the Brood
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bonehoard
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Keening Stone
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mindcrank
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver
• 1x Jace, Memory Adept

Commander (1)

Enchantment (11)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Bloodchief Ascension
• 1x Court of Cunning
• 1x Fraying Sanity
• 1x Intruder Alarm
• 1x Leyline of Anticipation
• 1x Memory Erosion
• 1x Pemmin's Aura
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x Psychic Corrosion
• 1x Sphinx's Tutelage

Sorcery (8)

• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Life's Finale
• 1x Maddening Cacophony
• 1x Mind Grind
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1x Scheming Symmetry
• 1x Traumatize

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Creature (7)

• 1x Eater of the Dead
• 1x Fallowsage
• 1x Knacksaw Clique
• 1x Morphling
• 1x Sewer Nemesis
• 1x Surgespanner
• 1x Wake Thrasher

Instant (2)

• 1x Evacuation
• 1x Visions of Beyond

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Freed from the Real

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Jace, Ingenious Mind-Mage

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Semi-budget Phenax, God of Deception deck. This deck can win in a lot of ways and no game with it is the same as the last.

Card suggestions are always welcome!

Wincons and Combos

Combos:

• Duskmantle Guildmage or Bloodchief Ascension + Mindcrank to win pretty much instantly

• King Macar, the Gold-Cursed + Pemmin's Aura to lock down the board and mill for a bunch

• Fraying Sanity + Fleet Swallower or Traumatize = player removal

Other wincons:

• Get-big-by-mill creatures like Consuming Aberration, Wight of Precinct Six, Mortivore, and others to mill and then mill more and more and more and... or just beat face if you see an opening

• Tree of Perdition to set someone's health to 13, proceed to mill for 40 every untap. Bonus points for hitting the Oloro or Trostani player

• Bloodchief Ascension or Duskmantle Guildmage with Phenax and any other critter on board finishes games quickly

• Reanimating stuff from your opponent's graves

• Rise of the Dark Realms to reanimate everything (may lead to instant scooping)

Notable exclusions

Eater of the Dead: Soon (tm)

Startled Awake  , Mind Funeral, Glimpse the Unthinkable, Archive Trap: One-time use mill cards like these don't affect the game that much and are essentially card disadvantage. I'd rather use cards that mill continuously throughout the game. Traumatize and Mind Grind are exceptions because mill in big quantities can actually affect or end games.

UPDATE: RIP Paradox Engine

Date added	7 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 37 - 0 Rares 23 - 0 Uncommons 9 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.41
Tokens	Gold, Phyrexian Germ 0/0 B, Monarch Emblem, Zombie 2/2 B
Folders	decks, Commanders, Commander Decks